rebooting system HD from different motherboard (was recovering secure data for client)

From: Marcus (anyone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 05/24/04

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    Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 11:25:40 GMT

    Greetings,

    First, thanks for all the help so far...

    I am mounting each drive (hda1,hda2 and hda5) separately with:

    mount /dev/hda# /mnt/root
    (where number is 1,2, or 5)

    I have reset the passwords ok but am still having problems
    re-installing grub and have a question about grub and fstab. First,
    when I look at the drive from knoppix I get 3 partitions: hda1, hda2
    and hda5. However, fstab looks like this:

    LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
    LABEL=/boot /boo ext3 defaults 1 2
    none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
    none /proc proc defaults 0 0
    none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
    LABEL=/users /users ext3 defaults 1 2
    /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
    /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
    /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
    someName-fast:/users /mnt/aharon-fast/users nfs rw,soft
    0 0

    Is what was hda3 now being re-assigned to hda5? (I think this is what
    might be happening, however, it appears as though the /boot section is
    at the root of hda1 which is where /grub/grub.conf is located and the
    bulk of the system is residing on hda2.)

    the other problem is that I can't seem to chroot to hda1, only hda2
    which is causing difficulty in re-installing grub with grub-install.
    Like I said, /grub/grub.conf is on hda1. Here is my original
    grub.conf:

    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
    #
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
    # file
    # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
    # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
    # root (hd0,0)
    # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
    # initrd /initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/hda
    default=0
    timeout=10
    splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
            root (hd0,0)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/
            initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
    title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-19.9)
            root (hd0,0)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.9 ro root=LABEL=/
            initrd /initrd-2.4.20-19.9.img
    title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
            root (hd0,0)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
            initrd /in:itrd-2.4.20-8.img

    any help is appreciated in correct modification of grub.conf and fstab
    as well as how I can re-install grub.

    Thanks in advance,

    David

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